Album Cover Photo: 

John C. Engelhardt (Longshot Photos / Dayton, OH)

Several years ago, I released an album called Mystery Street, an anthology album of recordings that span the years 1998 to 2018. At the time, the idea for…

Hound Dog Taylor was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1915, though some sources say 1917. He first played the piano and began playing the guitar when he was 20. He moved to Chicago in 1942.

Taylor had a condition…

REMEMBERING BILL HALEY & THE COMETS

Bill Haley was a country singer who loved to play Western Swing music. Bill Haley and his Comets had existed in an earlier, more country-flavored form as The Saddlemen but by the time they…